Aflred Adler Flashcards
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Individual Psychology
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- understand experiences and behaviors of each person
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Alfred Adler (1870 - 1937)
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- Weak/ill as a child
- 3rd of 7 children – always felt in shadow of older brother
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Teleological
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- All behavior is purposeful and goal-directed; people are always moving toward a significant future goal
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Unity and pattern
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- People are unified wholes; each has a unique pattern of behavior (e.g., style of life) used to reach goals
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Fictional Finalism
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- Imagined or potential goals that can guide our behavior
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Goals
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- Add meaning to existence
- Orient personality to the future not the past
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Adler’s Assumptions
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- Each of us have a unique perspective on ourselves and others
- People are inherently social
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Adler believed psychological influences were stronger than heredity [move on]
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9
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Initially (Will to Power)
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- People feel inferior and strive for superiority and perfection
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Later (Social Interest)
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- People strive to “contribute to human welfare”
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Superiority Complex
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- Overcompensating for normal feelings of inferiority
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Organic Inferiority
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- Physical limitation; leads individua to compensate – mixed blessing
13
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The Three Causes of Inferiority [placeholder]
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Parental Neglect
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- unwanted/hated child not experience love, cooperation, friendship or trust; problem solving ability is underrated
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Parental Overindulgence
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- especially from the opposite - sex parent; excludes others but expects indulgence from others
